White grape of interest for adaptation

Liliorila

lee-lyoh-ree-LAH
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Capitals mark the stressed syllable. The French r comes from the back of the throat. The recording is the reference.

Liliorila is a white grape crossed at INRA Bordeaux in 1956, a cross of Baroque and Chardonnay confirmed by DNA markers, admitted in the Bordeaux rules in 2021.

Liliorila is a white grape bred in Bordeaux. VIVC records that Pierre Marcel Durquety crossed it in 1956 at the viticulture research station of INRA’s Bordeaux research center, the same breeder and year it gives for Arinarnoa, another of Bordeaux’s trial grapes. DNA markers show that Liliorila is a cross of Baroque, a white grape VIVC gives as French, and Chardonnay, as the breeder had recorded. VIVC notes that it is registered in the European catalog. In the Bordeaux rules it belongs to the varieties of interest for adaptation, admitted on trial to help an appellation face climate change.

After its crossing, its next Bordeaux record is a research vineyard. Louise Durand’s 2012 report on VitAdapt, the plot of 52 varieties planted near Bordeaux in 2009 to study grapes in a warming climate, lists Liliorila with its parents and finds its musts among the more acidic, with Riesling and Petite Arvine. Marc Plantevin’s 2025 thesis on the varietal diversity of the Bordeaux vineyard measured it again among 51 varieties grown on that plot and at La Tour Carnet from 2017 to 2023.

The rules followed. The arrêtés of March 22, 2021, published in the Journal officiel on March 30, admitted Liliorila in AOC Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur for white wines; the Bordeaux texts also allow it above 4 grams per liter of residual sugar and in rosé. A grower needs a convention signed with INAO and the appellation’s growers’ body. In Bordeaux these grapes together may take up to 5% of the estate’s vines for the color and up to 10% of each lot for sale; in white Bordeaux Supérieur both limits are strict, below 5% and below 10%. The new white Médoc, homologated on July 31, 2025, names it too. A 2023 presentation by the Chambre d’agriculture de la Gironde counted about 1 hectare in the department.

Crossed in 1956: Pierre Marcel Durquety, at INRA’s Bordeaux research center (VIVC)

The family

Baroque shown by DNA markers

Chardonnay shown by DNA markers

Liliorila

Cross: Durquety, Pierre Marcel, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre de Recherches de Bordeaux, Station de Recherches de Viticulture, 1956.

  • VIVC 6834 marker pedigree (breeder record agrees)

The discovery: In 1956, Pierre Marcel Durquety crossed Liliorila at INRA Bordeaux; DNA markers confirm the cross he recorded, Baroque and Chardonnay.

In today’s rules

Admitted for adaptation (white) in 3 of the appellations and designations on this site; admitted for adaptation (rosé) in 1.

Admitted for adaptation · white
Bordeaux (with the other adaptation varieties: up to 5% of the estate’s vines for that color and up to 10% of each lot for sale), Bordeaux Supérieur (with the other adaptation varieties: below 5% of the estate’s white vines and below 10% of each lot for sale), Médoc (with the other adaptation varieties: up to 5% of the estate’s vines for that color and up to 10% of each lot for sale)
Admitted for adaptation · rosé
Bordeaux (with the other adaptation varieties: up to 5% of the estate’s vines for that color and up to 10% of each lot for sale)

Area planted

  • 1 ha planted area, Gironde (department 33), data year not stated (2023 presentation)
    Chambre d'agriculture de la Gironde, PNDV Tour 2023, 'Évolution et pilotage de l'encépagement' (Charlier, Vecchiato), slide 28 'Variétés à l'étude (ODG Bordeaux, Bx Supérieur)', header 'Surfaces plantées (33)', https://gironde.chambre-agriculture.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/Nouvelle-Aquitaine/100_Inst-Gironde/Documents/pdf_home_page_actualites/2023/PNDV_TOUR_2023_Evolution_et_pilotage_de_l_encepagement_CHARLIER_VECCHIATO.pdf, accessed 2026-10-12

Timeline

  1. 2019The INAO national committee approves the framework convention for varieties of interest for adaptation (June 18, 2019), the legal route for these grapes into Bordeaux.
    Cahier des charges AOC Bordeaux supérieur (opposition draft after CNAOV opinion of November 18, 2020), V.1: 'convention cadre approuvée par le comité national compétent le 18 juin 2019', https://extranet.inao.gouv.fr/fichier/3-CDC-Bordeaux-Supérieur.pdf
  2. 2021Admitted in AOC Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur (white) as a variety of interest for adaptation.
    Arrêtés of March 22, 2021 homologating the cahiers des charges of AOC Bordeaux (NOR AGRT2106893A) and AOC Bordeaux supérieur (NOR AGRT2106889A), Journal officiel, March 30, 2021. The grapes and their limits are in the cahiers published in the Bulletin officiel of the Ministry of Agriculture (links printed in each arrêté), as set out in INAO's drafts after the national committee's opinion of November 18, 2020: https://winewitandwisdomswe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Cahier-des-Charges-AOC-Bordeaux-updated-November-2020.pdf and https://extranet.inao.gouv.fr/fichier/3-CDC-Bordeaux-Supérieur.pdf
  3. 2023About 1 ha planted in the Gironde, as reported in November 2023.
    Chambre d'agriculture de la Gironde, PNDV Tour 2023, 'Évolution et pilotage de l'encépagement' (Charlier, Vecchiato), slide 28 'Variétés à l'étude (ODG Bordeaux, Bx Supérieur)', header 'Surfaces plantées (33)', https://gironde.chambre-agriculture.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/Nouvelle-Aquitaine/100_Inst-Gironde/Documents/pdf_home_page_actualites/2023/PNDV_TOUR_2023_Evolution_et_pilotage_de_l_encepagement_CHARLIER_VECCHIATO.pdf, accessed 2026-10-12

In the lab

More than 7 studies and theses in the Bordeaux Reviews library mention this grape.

Sources

  • Röckel et al. (2026): Vitis International Variety Catalogue, www.vivc.de, passport id 6834, accessed October 2026
  • INAO, directive INAO-DIR-CNAOV-2018-01 rev2 on varieties of interest for adaptation, dated June 3, 2021 (Comité national, sessions of June 2 and 3, 2021): 5% of the holding's plantings, 10% of the final blend for the color, 10 years extendable by up to 10, https://inao.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/2024-09/DIR-VIFA-062021-Rev2-1.pdf, accessed October 2026
  • Arrêtés of March 22, 2021 homologating the cahiers des charges of AOC Bordeaux (NOR AGRT2106893A) and AOC Bordeaux supérieur (NOR AGRT2106889A), Journal officiel, March 30, 2021. The grapes and their limits are in the cahiers published in the Bulletin officiel of the Ministry of Agriculture (links printed in each arrêté), as set out in INAO's drafts after the national committee's opinion of November 18, 2020: https://winewitandwisdomswe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Cahier-des-Charges-AOC-Bordeaux-updated-November-2020.pdf and https://extranet.inao.gouv.fr/fichier/3-CDC-Bordeaux-Supérieur.pdf
  • INAO, cahier des charges AOC 'Bordeaux', national opposition draft after the Comité national opinion of November 18, 2020, sections V.1, V.2 and IX.1 (convention cadre of June 18, 2019), copy at https://winewitandwisdomswe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Cahier-des-Charges-AOC-Bordeaux-updated-November-2020.pdf, accessed October 2026
  • INAO, cahier des charges AOC 'Bordeaux supérieur', opposition draft after the Comité national opinion of November 18, 2020, https://extranet.inao.gouv.fr/fichier/3-CDC-Bordeaux-Supérieur.pdf
  • Cahier des charges AOC 'Bordeaux', header 'Publié au BO-AGRI le 31 août 2023. Homologué par arrêté du 16 août 2023 publié au JORF du 25 août 2023', sections V.1, V.2 and IX.1, copy at https://winewitandwisdomswe.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Bordeaux-AOC-Cahier-des-Charges-August-2023.pdf (BO-Agri and Légifrance could not be read), accessed October 2026
  • Cahier des charges AOC 'Bordeaux supérieur', header 'Publié au BO-AGRI du 31 août 2023. Homologué par arrêté du 16 août 2023 publié au JORF du 25 août 2023', section V.1, copy at https://winewitandwisdomswe.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Bordeaux-Superieur-AOC-Cahier-des-Charges-August-2023.pdf, accessed October 2026
  • INAO, cahier des charges AOC 'Bordeaux supérieur' as modified by the Comité national on June 12, 2025, sections V.1, V.2 and IX.1, https://extranet.inao.gouv.fr/fichier/3-CDC-Bordeaux-sup%C3%A9rieur-06-2025.pdf; homologated by arrêté of November 26, 2025, JORF November 29, 2025, as stated in Bordeaux Supérieur ODG, 'Comparaison CDC BxSup 2023-2025', https://pro.planete-bordeaux.fr/wp-content/uploads/Comparaison-CDC-BxSup-2023-2025.pdf, accessed October 2026
  • INAO, modification of the cahier des charges AOC 'Bordeaux' adopted by the Comité national on June 12, 2025, sections V.1, V.2 and IX.1, https://extranet.inao.gouv.fr/fichier/2-CDC-Bordeaux-06-2025.pdf, accessed October 2026
  • INAO, 'Le Médoc s'ouvre aux vins blancs': 'L'arrêté du 31 juillet 2025 homologuant le cahier des charges est paru au Journal Officiel le 5 août 2025', https://www.inao.gouv.fr/actualites-medoc-vins-blanc-aout-2025, accessed October 2026
  • INAO, modification of the cahier des charges AOP 'Médoc' (white wines) adopted by the Comité national on February 6, 2025, sections V.1.a, V.2.a and IX.1.a, https://extranet.inao.gouv.fr/fichier/2-PNO-CDC-Medoc.pdf; European Commission, communication of an approved standard amendment, PDO-FR-A0730-AM06, C/2026/1140, Official Journal C of March 2, 2026, single document section 8, copy at https://winewitandwisdomswe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Cashier-des-Charges-Medoc-AOC-March-2926.pdf, accessed October 2026
  • Chambre d'agriculture de la Gironde, PNDV Tour 2023, 'Évolution et pilotage de l'encépagement' (Charlier, Vecchiato), slide 28 'Variétés à l'étude (ODG Bordeaux, Bx Supérieur)', header 'Surfaces plantées (33)', https://gironde.chambre-agriculture.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/Nouvelle-Aquitaine/100_Inst-Gironde/Documents/pdf_home_page_actualites/2023/PNDV_TOUR_2023_Evolution_et_pilotage_de_l_encepagement_CHARLIER_VECCHIATO.pdf, accessed October 2026 (no data year stated)
  • Louise Durand, 'Mise en place d'un protocole de traitement de données pour l'étude de l'adaptation d'une large gamme de cépages aux évolutions climatiques en Bordelais', 2012, figures 8 and 10 and tables
  • Marc Plantevin, 'L'exploration de la diversité variétale en production viticole à fin d'adaptation au changement climatique ... Application au vignoble bordelais', doctoral thesis, 2025, https://theses.hal.science/tel-04988263v1, figure 29 and summary
  • Cornelis van Leeuwen, Agnès Destrac-Irvine, Matthieu Dubernet et al., 'An Update on the Impact of Climate Change in Viticulture and Potential Adaptations', Agronomy 9:514, 2019, pp. 9-10
  • Louise Durand, 'Mise en place d'un protocole de traitement de données pour l'étude de l'adaptation d'une large gamme de cépages aux évolutions climatiques en Bordelais', 2012 (the oldest text in my library that names Liliorila)
  • Röckel et al. (2026): Vitis International Variety Catalogue, www.vivc.de, accessed October 2026

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